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Halo ODST: Breaking The Mould

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Explore Halo 3: ODST’s journey from DLC to full game, or in the words of cinematics director CJ Cowan, “Here’s an engine, here’s a story, you got a year. Go.” More »
Media

Aion: East Meets West

1:40AM Mike Fahey | The third is a series of video podcasts for NCsoft’s Aion discusses the changes made to bring a hugely successful Korean MMO to North America and Europe. More »
Culture

The Road To Champions

1:40AM Mike Fahey | In this developer diary for Champions Online, Cryptic explores the secret origins of the company and how it wound up creating a superhero MMO. More »

Denis Hopper Says Gamers Will Love Deadly Creatures

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Revealed just yesterday as one of the voices behind the human co-stars in THQ’s Deadly Creatures, veteran unhinged actor Dennis Hopper shares his opinion of the game in this behind-the-scenes video. More »

Age Of Conan’s Fighting Is A Bloody Mess

1:00PM Mike Fahey | I’ve gotten two things from this developer diary for Funcom’s Age of Conan MMO. First off, it is open season on heads in AOC. If you have a head and plan on playing the game, I highly suggest you either reinforce it with a steel neckpiece of some sort, or perhaps pre-detach your head with some sort of velcro solution so it can easily be retrieved and reattached. Secondly, Funcom Senior System Designer Andrew Griffin has some amazing hair. You wouldn’t think a guy with such great hair would have anything to do with all of this rampant decapitation, but there you go. More »